prep

“prep” stands for pre-exposure prophylaxis. the word “prophylaxis” means “to prevent or control the spread of an infection or disease.” prep is a way for people who don’t have hiv to prevent hiv infection by taking a pill every day. the pill contains two medicines that are also used to treat hiv. if you take prep and are exposed to hiv through s-x or injection drug use, these medicines can work to keep the virus from taking hold in your body.

along with other prevention methods like condoms, prep can offer good protection against hiv if taken every day.

people who use prep must be able to take the drug every day and to return to their health care provider every 3 months for a repeat hiv test, prescription refills, and follow-up.

the pill approved by the u.s. food and drug administration (fda) for daily use as prep for people at very high risk of getting hiv infection is called truvada®. truvada® is a combination of two hiv medications (tenofovir and emtricitabine). these medicines work by blocking important pathways that hiv uses to set up an infection. if you take prep daily, the presence of the medicine in your bloodstream can often stop hiv from taking hold and spreading in your body. if you do not take prep every day, there may not be enough medicine in your bloodstream to block the virus. prep can only be prescribed by a health care provider and must be taken as directed to work.
i use prep to stay hiv negative when having s-x with other men.

i am prepared for s-x.

preppy

preps at a party

ewww

notice the lacoste sweater
noun (prep): comes from identifiying one who goes to a prepratory or “prep” school (typically on the east coast), or a school with the intent of preparing its students for college (often ivy league).
has come to be an label for those who conform to typical teenage behavior, in areas like clothing, school behavior, and sports partic-p-tion, because preps usually are more ambitious and/or image-conscious than others.
popular belief is that preps hate nerds/goths/punks/etc, however, generally, preps pay little attention to other “types,” and those who hate preps with the most p-ssion are those who were once preps and have recently gone away from their previous behavior, and often people who are posers intent on protecting their alternative-ness.
prep has become to be nearly synonymous with conformist, to the point where most preps have been in denial of their typecast, and it is seen as an insult in the eyes of many.
preppy is the adjective form, preppily is the adverb.
the prep dreamed of going to a school that wasn’t too far from where her quarterback boyfriend got a scholarship.
bob wouldn’t talk to annie; he thought her interest in mtv and popular culture made her too preppy.
tiffany started dressing very preppily over the summer, shedding her all-black dress code for the latest styles.
a prep is a person that is totally brainwashed by the media. they wear what brands the media tells them to such as a&f, ae, aero, hollister, express, etc. they basically only listen to mainstream music. they make fun of people who aren’t afraid to be themselves otherwise know as individuals. preps are shallow. they are monkeys –> monkey see, monkey do. the media says something’s cool, prep sees, prep thinks it’s cool.
as someone else on here said, “preps are the downfall of society”. and they are.
though, there are some people that are actually not sn-bby, wear the “prepy” clothes because they like them, and are smart and not shallow. these people are ok they are nice. they will not lead to the apocolypse like the rest of the preps.
the media says jumping off a bridge is the cool and “in” right now.
prep: lyk omg i’m lyk ssooooo jumpin off a briadgee todai. omgomg who wantz to com.
a common misconception is that a prep is someone who shops at american eagle, abercrombie & fitch and hollister and pariticpates in school sports and activites. a prep is actually one who attends a prepatory school, usually on the east coast, comes from an old rich family and dresses in labels like ralph lauren and lacoste. a prep wears sweater vests, plays tennis, is a country club member and is destined for a top ivy league school.
person 1: did you see that preppy girl?
person 2: yeah. i’ll bet she’s really rich.
in high school, preps usually:

-are on the varsity football team, the cheerleading squad, or dance squad

-are rich

-wear clothes from stores such as abercrombie & fitch and hollister

-have cellphones with ringtones

-are the first in their cl-ss to have cars and other “adult” luxuries

-~:-type lik dis on da internet-:~

-know absolutely nothing about music outside of what is on mtv or the radio

-know absolutely nothing about “nerd” things (anime, comic books, d&d, etc)

-think goths are “evil satan worshipping freaks”

-do not play video games outside of sports/racing games and halo/halo 2 (males) -do not play video games at all (females)

-do not play musical instruments, write poetry, or have any artistic qualities of any kind

-spend their weekends at the mall, at school sports games, or at parties, where they “get drunk off their -ss”

-are absolutely hated by most intelligent people (including me) for their stupidity and sn-bbish att-tude.
prep: like omg im gonna go 2 abercrombie and fitch and den watch mtv

me:…-wants to tear their head off-
the wealthy cl-ss of teens often cruelly capitalizes on their superior access to money and social power which builds animosity within the less privileged cl-sses. the wealthy cl-ss develop among themselves a system of dress and demeanor that is very much akin to their fraternity and sorority counterpart which eventually matures into the business and country club community of adults. preppiness, in such a way, is really the earliest exhibition of the wealthy attempting to subvert and dominate the poor that the average american experiences while growing up.
dirt poor b-st-rd wearing clothes from salvation army: “dude, that guy’s wearing a pink sweater and looks like a c-cky pr-ck.”

princ-p-l: “now that’s no way to talk about your fellow cl-ssmates. zack morris is one of the wealthiest students at this school… although he is known for his hillarious shinanigans.”

dirt poor b-st-rd wearing clothes from salvation army: “look, he’s got that smaller poorer kid in a headlock.”

princ-p-l: “oh i’m sure that kid deserves it, but you can see me in detention for using the curse word, ‘pr-ck’.”
typically, this word has become a derogatory name for a guy or a girl who takes pride in the way they approach, and appear, in life. common misconceptions about “preps” are that we are a bunch of c-cky, new england elitist types who have more money than g-d, himself, and an inherent desire to flaunt it in the form of clothing, cars, housing, education and social standing.

first off: you don’t have to be from the north to be a prep. let me make this very clear. what prep initially implies is that you went to preparatory school, hence the word “prep” (i’ll discuss later how it’s a cultural ident-ty). there are plenty of good southern preparatory schools, which include woodberry forest, virginia episcopal school…you get the idea. there are good preparatory schools in every corner of this country, but it’s the new england boarding schools that have -ssisted in establishing this stereotyped location.

let’s get on with true prep culture:

a prep’s wardrobe consists of some expensive clothing, but they’ve had it for the better part of a decade–excluding the two vineyard vines polos they got for their birthday and the 50% off sale at brooks brothers–indicating the true preppy trait of valuing “cl-ssic” over “trendy”. we don’t buy into the lacoste trend of now, but we will gladly wear “handed down from dad” lacoste polo shirt when it still maintained an -ssociation with izod, which was well before it became the token icon of a sold out, soulless and materialistic world.

and as far as the true prep’s garage is concerned, you’re more likely to find a boxy volvo station wagon or sedan (ski rack clutching to the roof for dear life) than you are the ferrari or hummer that everybody seems to -ssociate with a prep. you find cars like those in the garages of those obnoxious yuppies who liken themselves to human beings because of the sole reason that they have a body with blood (no matter how drug-laced) flowing through it.

another typical misconception about preps is that we live in gigantic mansions on the 8th fairway of some country club to prove a point. h-ll no. people who buy a big house with the sole intention of demonstrating that they have a lot of money are not preps. they are -ssholes or yuppies. the only time a prep will ever move into a big house (and even then, it will never be one that is likened to a mcmansion)is if a) they have a large family or b) it was p-ssed down for generations (refer to the “cl-ssic” versus “trendy” juxtaposition, because trust me, it applies right here). when it comes to housing, for a true prep, less is definitely more. a true prep will rent a studio apartment somewhere on the upper east side in lieu of purchasing a behemoth piece of archtectural vomit on the links, even though both probably wind up costing the same.

this brings me to education. preps spend money on an education for the sole reason of having the proper tools to become successfully established with relative ease upon graduation. it’s not for bragging rights, because anybody who brags about going to harvard because it’s “haaaarvard” and not “the groundwork for their future success” usually winds up the victim of some form of brutal sodomy. a prep’s tendency with regard to education is to go to a top college or university (generally on the east coast, but there’s always stanford and ucla should a prep choose to make a respectable deviation from the norm). private inst-tutions frequented by preps include, but are certainly not limited to: middlebury, bowdoin, duke, tufts, davidson, lehigh, lafayette, colby, bates, and every single ivy league inst-tution ever established. if for high school, a prep found choate, kent or andover to be too small, they might choose to attend any of the following public universities: uva, unc, michigan, ucla, etc.

finally, to put an end to an abhorrent misconception that everybody seems to maintain: no, true preps do not buy their social status. maybe we’ll hang out at a ritzy bar if a friend is getting married, but normally, we avoid those scenes until we’re at least 45 years old and drink scotch. the young people who frequent those places are just plain trying too hard. a true prep knows where to find a cl-ssy joint that won’t break the bank or the heart. an amazing night on the town for a prep consists of dinner at j.g. melon (11$) followed by an evening of wasting away on well-bourbon at t.j.’s (25$), which is an incredibly fun and inexpensive joint, considering it’s in manhattan. if that were my night, which it has been before, i would have just spent less in six hours than the pretentious b-st-rd across the street did in the thirty seconds that it took him to order the escargot.

a true prep is a cl-ssy individual. we know where to go, who to know and we seriously believe in cl-ss, and the true ones of us refuse to buy into pop culture. we do the right things, whether it’s holding the door for a lady, mixing our gin and tonic with the right proportions, or double-sp-cing after every period when we write our essays. truly, “prep” is not a trend, it is a cl-ssic way of life.
brian: that upstart young man with o’melveny and myers attended andover and went on to earn dual bachelor’s degrees from middlebury college and a law degree from the university of virginia. exemplary of a truly cl-ssy individual.

john: ah yes, a true prep.

brian: and look at that, he just gave his jacket to that incredibly tall, gorgeous blonde woman. why can’t my daughter find someone like that?
the most importent part of the definition of a “prep” is where they go to school. “preps” go to college prepetory schools; hence the word “prep.” these schools are always private, and often (but not always) boarding schools. the best sports teams are generally lacrosse and field hockey, but everyone has alot of school spirit. therefore, people who do not go to prep schools, but dress in the stereotypical clothing of preps (polos, kakais, loafers, etc.) are not preps, but rather they are “preppy.” essentially these people want to seem like they have ties to old money, or are rich, or are blue bloods, etc, etc.

now the real preps are generally smart, privilaged, and (very often) white. their parents are usually doctors, lawyers, or buisnessmen, and all went to college. all preps will go to college, often ivy legue schools, or small liberal arts colleges in new england (middlebury, trinity, colby, etc.), though some will go to the elite west coast schools. preps will generally fill their college resumes with multiple ap cl-sses and will have sat tutors or courses to -ssue their entry into these small, elite, and expensive private colleges.

in the end, these real “preps” are the new aristocracy of the united states. they live their lives sheltered from the hardships that the average citizen must deal with, going on about their way in refined luxury. their lives are set up before they are born, most will go on to similarly professional, affluent, and prestigious careers as their parents, and they will soon give birth to the next generation of preps.
the real preps don’t simply dress “preppy.” they live it.

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